plotly.js changelog

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where X.Y.Z is the semver of most recent plotly.js release.

[1.16.0] -- 2016-08-04

Added

• Add updatemenus (aka dropdowns) layout components [#770]
• Trace type scattermapbox is now part of the main bundle [#816]
• Add support for plot in child windows [#764, #806]
• Horizontal legends with many items are now wrapped into multiple lines [#786]
• Active color of range selector button is now configurable via activecolor [#796]
• Add support for mapbox style JSON [#795]

Changed

• Promise queue is cleared on restyle and relayout instead of in the plot catch handler (which ate up user-defined catch handlers as of 1.15.0) [#776, #789]
• Improve performance in convertToSVG step [#791, #804]

Fixed

• Skip over non-container arrays in relink private key step (performance bug introduced in 1.15.0) [#817]
• Categorical heatmap traces with insufficient brick are now functional again (bug introduced in 1.14.0) [#783, #812]
• Fix Plotly.validate for info and container array attributes [#814, #819]
• Range selector buttons can now be deleted via relayout [#793]

[1.15.0] -- 2016-07-25

Added

• Add Plotly.validate method [#697]
• Add support for transforms plugins modules [#499]
• Some partial bundles are now distributed in dist/ [#740]
• Mapbox access token can now be set in layout.mapbox [#729]
• Undo/Redo queue length is now configurable via configuration option queueLength [#737]

Changed

• Improve performance in gl2d request animation frame loop [#731]
• Improve Lib.extendDeep performance for primitive arrays [#732]
• Improve potential XSS input in text fields [#736]
• Improve scaling on scroll zoom for scatter lines and markers [#761, #762]

Fixed

• toImage pixel output for gl2d graphs are now scaled properly [#735]
• scattermapbox marker size and color arrays are now correctly converted when they include repeated values [#747]
• Fix scatter3d marker line color inheritance [#754]
• text fields can now support link with query params = and & [#736]
• Fix Chrome 50 bug where tester svg blocked other DOM nodes [#745]

[1.14.2] -- 2016-07-11

Fixed

• Plotly.newPlot correctly clears all present WebGL contexts [#724]
• Bar traces with layout.bargap 0 and unset marker.line.width are functional again (bug introduced in 1.3.0) [#709]
• Stacked bar traces now correctly set the first bar position when leading gaps are present (bug introduced in 1.11.0) [#716]
• Bar traces with layout.barmode relative now correctly compute the bar sum of the first position when positive and negative values are present [#723]
• Event plotly_relayout is emitted upon pan / zoom on a mapbox subplot [#727]
• Lasso and select box drag modes now work with fixed ranged axes [#728]
• gl2d trace objects are purged when their parent scenes are destroyed [#724]

[1.14.1] -- 2016-06-28

Fixed

• Fix colorscale restyle calls on heatmap traces (bug introduced in 1.14.0) [#694]
• Hover after zoom / pan is now functional again in ternary plots (bug introduced in 1.14.0) [#688]
• Fix mapbox layer relayout starting from invisible layer [#693]
• Hover labels when hoveron: 'fills' are now constrained to the viewports [#688]
• Fix surface countours description [#696]
• Fix mapbox.layers.line description [#690]

[1.14.0] -- 2016-06-22

Added

• Attribute line.color in scatter3d traces now support color scales [#617]
• Annotations tail positions can now be set in data coordinates via the new axref and ayref attributes [#610]
• Attribute hoveron is added for scatter and scatterternary traces which adds the option to show hover labels about fill regions (instead of simply of about data points) [#673]
• Layout shapes can now be moved and resized (except for 'path' shapes) in editable contexts [#660]

Changed

• Numerous additions and changes where made to the mapbox layout layers attributes (introduced in 1.13.0). Namely, circle and symbol layer type where added. Note that some style attributes have been renamed to match the mapbox-gl API more closely. [#681]

Fixed

• Off-screen heatmap traces are properly deleted (bug introduced in 1.5.1) [#655]
• Hover labels for multi-heatmap subplot is functional again (bug introduced in 1.4.0) [#655]
• Heatmap x/y brick generation is now functional for 0 and 1 item columns [#651]
• Multiple layout images can now shared the same image source [#672]
• Updating legend border and bgcolor attribute now works via Plotly.relayout [#652]
• Dragmode 'select' and 'lasso' no longer throw exception when selecting legendonly traces [#644]
• Ternary plots now respect the staticPlot config option [#645]
• Descriptions for axes nticks and contour traces ncountoursnow properly describe their behavior [#662]

[1.13.0] -- 2016-06-13

Added

• Beta version of the scattermapbox trace type - which allows users to create mapbox-gl maps using the plotly.js API. Note that scattermapbox is only available through custom bundling in this release [#626]
• Configurable log levels. All plotly.js logging is now turned off by default. Use Plotly.setPlotConfig({ logging: /* 1 or 2 */ }) to (1) display warnings only or (2) all logs [#590]
• Thorough mesh3d attribute descriptions [#593]

Changed

• Generalize hover picking routine (to make more easily re-usable for other plot types) [#575, #631]

Fixed

• Fix Plotly.toImage and Plotly.downloadImage bug specific to Chrome 51 on OSX [#604]
• Fix Plotly.downloadImage for svg types [#604]
• Fix scattergl opacity and connectgaps for 'lines' mode [#589]
• Make legend scroll bar keep its position after redraws [#584]
• Properly handle axis-reference shapes on overlaid axes [#612]
• Fix Plotly.relayout calls for layout.images in { astr: val } notation [#624]
• Bring back correct default value for lightposition in surface traces (bug introduced in 1.12.0) [#571]
• Fix typos in contours descriptions in contour traces [#583]
• Fix typos in axis.ticktext description [#607]
• Fix ambiguities in histogram nbin descriptions [#623]

[1.12.0] -- 2016-05-26

Added

• Light positions, face normal epsilon and vertex normal epsilon are now configurable in mesh3d traces [#556]
• Light position is now configurable in surface traces [#556]
• surface and mesh3d lighting attributes are now accompanied with comprehensive descriptions. [#556]

Changed

• Plot modules are now allowed to have their own toSVG method for subplot-specific to-svg logic [#554]

Fixed

• gl2d plots are now functional in core-js environments (e.g. in babel es6 presets) [#569]
• gl2d replot calls from a blank plot are now functional [#570]
• SVG graph config argument scrollZoom is now again functional (bug introduced in v1.10.0) [#564]
• layout.separators is now honored in pie text labels [#547]
• Heatmap zsmooth value 'fast' is now functional for arbitrary layout widths [#548]
• Range sliders now respond to all axis range relayout calls [#568]

[1.11.0] -- 2016-05-17

Added

• Add top-level methods Plotly.toImage to convert a plotly graph to an image data URL (svg, png, jpg, and webp are supported) and Plotly.downloadImage to download a plotly graph as an image [#446]
• Add the ability to add arbitrary images loaded from a url to a plot's layout [#525]
• Add the option of making legend span horizontally [#535]
• Add connectgaps attribute to scattergl traces [#449]
• Add new 'relative' bar mode which stacks on top of one another with negative values below the axis, positive values above [#517]
• Add support for the 'winkel tripel' projection in geo subplots [#492]
• Event plotly_relayout is now emitted on gl2d subplot drag/pan/zoom interactions [#466]
• Add support for fill coloring in contourgl traces [#522, #543]

Changed

• Cartesian on-hover routine is now uses a 50ms interval between search calls instead of 100ms for smoother displaying hover labels [#514]
• [Internal change] fullLayout _has fields are replaced by a _has method which checks if a particular plot type is present on a graph [#491]

Fixed

• Bar widths of traces with null coordinates are now correctly computed [#542]
• Error bar spans on bar traces with null coordinates are now correctly computed [#542]
• All promises spawn in Plotly.plot are now guaranteed to be resolved before the final resolve [#521]
• Restyling scatterternary data attributes is now working [#540]
• Error bar of 0 length in log axes are not included in hover labels (instead of showing NaNs) [#533]

[1.10.2] -- 2016-05-05

Fixed

• Subplot and range slider clip paths are now functional in AngularJS [#509]
• relayout call involving axis categoryorder and categoryarray are now working [#510]
• Annotation drag interactions in editable: true mode are now functional (bug introduced in 1.10.0)[#505]
• Improved attribute description for shape xref and yref [#506]

[1.10.1] -- 2016-05-02

Fixed

• Resizing a graph (e.g. via Plotly.relayout or Plotly.Plots.resize) properly updates the plot area clip paths (bug introduced in 1.10.0) [#490]
• Plotly.Snapshot.toSVG is now functional again in IE11 and old version of Chrome and FF (bug introduced in 1.10.0) [#489]
• Hover labels of superimposed traces when 'hovermode' is set to 'closest' are properly displayed (bug introduced in 1.10.0) [#495]
• Surface contour highlights are toggleable [#459]
• Surface contour highlights style attributes are lower cased [#459]
• Zoom overlay are drawn over shapes [#448]
• Legend are draggable in editable: true contexts (bug introduced in 1.6.0) [#487]
• Legend scroll box are drawn outside the legend [#478]

[1.10.0] -- 2016-04-12

Added

• Beta version of two new 2D WebGL trace types: heatmapgl and contourgl [#427, #434]
• Two new scatter line fill modes: 'toself' and 'tonext' [#462]
• Fills for scatterternary traces are now supported [#462]
• Configurable axis category ordering with categoryorder and an optional categoryarray axis attributes [#419]
• Configurable shapes layer position with shape attribute layer [#439]
• Configurable range slider range (so that the initial xaxis range can differ from the range slider range) [#473]

Changed

• Nested SVG elements in SVG image exports are removed, making the to-image mode bar button work in RStudio and SVG export compatible with Adobe Illustrator [#415, #454, #442]
• Use country-regex npm package instead of hard-coded file of ISO-3 code to country regular expressions [#461]

Fixed

• Legend positioning does not break on negative x and y settings (bug introduced in 1.6.0) [#417]
• Shapes are properly deleted when clearing all of them at once (bug introduced in 1.9.0) [#465]
• Promise are return after first render in gl3d and gl2d plots [#421]
• Click and hover events are properly triggered when trace hoverinfo is set to 'none' [#438]
• plotly_unhover events is now properly triggered on geo trace types [#429]
• plotly_relayout event is now properly triggered on gl3d set camera [#458]
• RGBA colors are now supported in scatter and bar custom color scales [#422]
• Range slider is now functional with x0/dx data [#441]
• Range slider is now compatible with mode bar axis range buttons and double click [#471]

[1.9.0] -- 2016-04-12

Added

• Ternary plots with support for scatter traces (trace type scatterternary) [#390]

Fixed

• Toggling the visibility of scatter3d traces with surfaceaxis now works [#405]
• scatter3d traces with surfaceaxis turned now feature real 3D opacity [#408]
• plotly_unhover is now properly triggered over pie traces [#407]
• Better grammar in scatter attribute descriptions [#406]

[1.8.0] -- 2016-04-04

Added

• Range slider functionality for scatter traces [#336, #368, #377]
• Range selector functionality for cartesian and gl2d plot types [#373]
• Support for connectgaps in scatter3d traces [#361]

Fixed

• gl2d toImage mode bar button is now again functional (bug introduced in 1.7.0) [#369]
• IE / Edge handling of getComputedTextLength is now functional [#376]
• improved marker color attribute description [#366]

[1.7.1] -- 2016-03-30

Fixed

• Legend dimensions are correctly updated (bug introduced in 1.7.0) [#365]
• Friction between cartesian double-click and drag interactions is reduced [#355]
• Ultra-zoomed svg line paths are correctly computed [#353]
• Initial axis ranges are no longer reset on data-updating restyle calls [#351]
• Events now work in jQuery no-conflict scopes (bug introduced in 1.7.0) [#352]

[1.7.0] -- 2016-03-22

Added

• Custom surface color functionality (for 4D plotting) is added to surface traces [#347]
• Top-level Plotly.purge method (which returns the graph div in its pre-Plotly.plot state) is added [#300]
• Support for custom hover labels on multiple subplots in Plotly.Fx.hover is added [#301]

Fixed

• Error bars node ordering now respect the trace ordering [#343]
• Geo traces nodes now update properly on streaming plot calls [#324]
• jQuery check in event module is made more robust [#328]

[1.6.3] -- 2016-03-07

Fixed

• Argument parsing for vertex and face colors of mesh3d traces is now functional [#287]

[1.6.2] -- 2016-03-03

Fixed

• SVG overflow property is now properly set for IE11 [#305, #306]
• Hover labels associated with text arrays with falsy values are properly skipped over [#310]
• Snapshot routines now strip browser-only user-select style attributes [#311]

[1.6.1] -- 2016-03-01

Fixed

• Legend scroll bars are no longer invalid SVG elements (bug introduced in 1.6.0) [#304]
• Colorscale YlGnBu and YlOrRd are now properly identified [#295]

[1.6.0] -- 2016-02-29

Added

• SVG cartesian, 3D, geographic maps and pie charts can now coexist on the same graph [#246, #258, #289]
• Legends with long item lists are now scrollable (instead of being cropped) [#243]
• Event plotly_deselect is now emitted after double-clicking in select and lasso drag modes.
• Event plotly_doubleclick is now emitted after double-clicking on SVG cartesian graphs in zoom and pan drag modes.
• Layout attributes dragmode and hovermode can now be set individually in each scene [#258]
• Plotly.Plots.resize now returns a promise. [#253, #262]

Fixed

• Plotly.deleteTraces now properly deletes the last trace of a cartesian subplot [#289]
• Plotly.deleteTraces now works on heatmap, contour, pie, surface, mesh3d and geo trace types [#289]
• Plotly.deleteTraces now properly delete color bars associated with deleted traces
• Clearing cartesian axes via relayout no longer results in an uncaught error [#289]
• Events plotly_hover, plotly_unhover and plotly_click are properly emitted on 3D graphs [#240]
• Null and undefined categories are properly skipped over [#286]
• Hover labels on 3D graphs are now properly hidden when hovermode is set to false [#258]
• Multi-scene 3D graphs now set their camera position via their own scene attributes [#258]
• Toggling hovermode on 3D graphs no longer resets the scene domain [#258]
• Resetting the camera position on scenes where the camera attribute was supplied no longer results in an uncaught error [#258]
• Axis attributes hoverformat, tickprefix, ticksuffix are honored even when showticklabels is set to false [#267]
• Config option doubleClick set to 'reset' now properly handles auto-ranged axes [#285]

[1.5.2] -- 2016-02-10

Fixed

• Fix geo trace visibility toggling (bug introduced in 1.5.1) [#245]

[1.5.1] -- 2016-02-01

Fixed

• Scattergeo and choropleth now correctly fire hover and click events [#215]
• Heatmap and contour traces are redrawn in the correct order [#194]
• Early returns in Plotly.plot now correctly return Promise rejections [#226]
• Soon to be deprecated SVGElement.offsetParent calls are removed [#222]
• Geo zoom in button is now correctly titled Zoom in [#219]
• All attribute description are correctly stripped from the dist files (bug introduced in 1.5.0) [#223]
• Insecure dev dependencies ecstatic and uglify-js are bumped [#225]
• Outdated karma-browserify dev dependency is bumped [#229]

[1.5.0] -- 2016-01-22

Added

• Modularize the library (first iteration). Trace types can be required in one-by-one to make custom plotly.js bundles of lesser size. [#180, #187, #193, #202]

Changed

• Remove json assets from the js source files (to better support Webpack bundling) [#183]
• Update d3, tinycolor2, topojson dependencies [#195]
• Improve 'colorscale' attribute description [#186]

Fixed

• Fix pan mode drag delay [#188]
• Make Plotly.deleteTrace handle big-indices-array properly [#203]

[1.4.1] -- 2016-01-11

Fixed

• Click events work properly after being broken in 1.4.0 [#174]

[1.4.0] -- 2016-01-11

Added

• Lasso and rectangular selection interactions for scatter-marker and scatter-text traces [#154, #169]
• Un-gitignore css and svg font built files, removing post-install step and dependency on node-sass [#164]

Changed

• Clean up Pie, Box and Choropleth trace module [#158, #159, #165]

Fixed

• Surface traces correctly handle zmin and zmax attributes [#153]
• Pie trace correctly trigger hover events [#150]

[1.3.1] -- 2016-01-04

Fixed

• Fix Plotly.addTraces for gl3d and gl2d trace types [#140]

[1.3.0] -- 2015-12-21

Added

• Trigger click event on pie charts [#111]
• Add attribute descriptions for mesh3d trace type [#115]

Changed

• [Internal] Trace module have now a 1-to-1 correspondence with trace type [#124]
• [Internal] Remove circularize import in colorbar and colorscale module [#136]

Fixed

• Fixed zeroline behavior in gl3d plots [#112]
• Axis tickangle consistently used degrees in both svg and gl plots [#131]
• Plotly.newPlot destroy mode bar before plotting new one [#125]
• Plotly.newPlot removes all event listeners from graph div [#117]
• Fixed attribute description for scatter3d marker opacity [#114]

[1.2.1] -- 2015-12-14

Changed

• Improve XSS check in anchor href [#100]

Fixed

• Fix Fifefox 42 to-image failures [#104]
• Fix error bar with type 'sqrt' logic making them visible without specifying the 'value' field [#91]
• Fix cartesian zoom/drag cover attributes for Firefox 31 [#92]

[1.2.0] -- 2015-12-07

Added

• All Plotly.____ methods now return a promise, and pass the graph-div as an argument [#77]
• package.json now has webpack field so plotly.js can be used by webpack users [#68]
• Add support for rgba colours in pie-charts [#63]

Changed

• Optimized by calling window.getComputedStyle only once [#81]
• Improved npm install process for topojson file resolve [#48]

Fixed

• Fixed geo-plot promises [#52]
• Typo fixed in No DOM element error message [#64]
• Fix hover labels with hoverinfo 'text' [#70]
• Fix scaling for gl3d error bars [#74]

[1.1.1] -- 2015-12-01

Fixed

• Fix displayModeBar plot config logic [#57]
• Fix length-1 bins count as ascending in Lib.findBin [#47]
• Fix jasmine test runner on windows [#46]

[1.1.0] -- 2015-11-25

Added

• Add three plot config options: modeBarButtonsToRemove, modeBarButtonsToAdd and modeBarButtons which combine to add the ability to remove specific mode bar buttons add custom mode bar buttons and fully customize the mode bar.

Fixed

• Fix installation from npm3 [#12]
• Fix UMD in plotly.js dist files [#18]
• Fix for blank elements in a text array [#31]

[1.0.0] -- 2015-11-17

First fully open source release.

Added

• Add 2D WebGL plot engine

Changed

• Save to cloud is now done via a modebar button by default, the 'Edit chart' link is still available through the 'showLink' plot config.
• Better double-click notifier CSS

Fixed

• Fix Plotly.newPlot 3D and geo bug.
• Fix plotly_click event bug in latest Chrome and Firefox.

Known limitations

• Different plot types cannot be mixed in subplots.
• 2D WebGL has no image test support.
• Click and hover events are not hooked for gl3d, geo and gl2d plot types.
• Polar chart are under-developed.